On Friday, June 17, 2011 23:10:01 Richard Schütz wrote:
> The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that
> you just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver.
>
>
> ATTENTION: This can crash your X server and corrupt memory!
>
> Example: [1], an otherwise harmless picture. Every picture with the same
> width will work, too. I could trigger the bug at least with Firefox,
> Midori, Epiphany and EOG. It looks like some applications like Chromium
> alter the size, so they don't trigger it.
>
>
> [1] http://www.abload.de/img/nvbugy7cd.jpg


I can confirm crash of Xorg with Firefox 4 on Nvidia GT218 with 275.09.7
drivers. Epiphany displays weird artefacts, but does not crash.
Opera and Chrome are OK. Looks like only Gecko has these problems.

Dan

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